Body art has been used for thousands of years. History has shown that it has been used for religion and cultural purposes. However, in the 21st century, body art has stretched beyond the realms of religion and culture. Now, body art is seen everywhere as a form of expression. There's even a vast selection of colors one can choose from.
Street art, in comparison to body art, is very similar. Graffiti has been around since ancient times as well. Artists like to walk around with cans of spray paint and leave their marks for the world to see. No different from tattoos, street art varies from pictures to words and black and white to colors. It's a form of expression many people today use, especially in the more urban areas.
Although body art and street art have many similarities in aspects of designs and color arrangements, there are much more similarities that are much deeper in meaning. Both forms of art is a form of expression with hidden meanings. Many street artists and people with tattoos have symbols or phrases that have a rooted meaning in their lives. Some represent death of loved ones or one's life motto. In essence, both have hidden secrets of their lives. Many works of these forms of art can look bizarre and odd, but to the street artist and to the person with the tattoo, it goes beyond the factor of appearance and how "cool" it looks.
These two forms of art share the idea of expressing one's feelings and emotions, but however they also share the idea of being looked down upon - sometimes even ridiculed for. Street art has always had its enemies due to the fact that it is vandalism! Street artists are usually viewed as hoodlums.
Just as the street artists are viewed as thugs, people with tattoos all around their body are viewed as people who are being stupid and young. When parents, especially some cultures like Korean cultures, see people with tattoos all around, they scoff at them. Body art is being slowly accepted, but mainly from the younger generation of the 21st century.
However, regardless of if they are looked down upon, with their share of enemies comes the share of fans. Society is slowly beginning to open up to street art and body art. Street art has been less viewed as a crime, but more as a public museum for everyone to view. Tattoos are being viewed as cool and meaningful symbols of each unique individuals. Even though the fans are more directed towards the younger crowd, the younger generation is the future. So eventually, and hopefully, society will see the kids walking around with spray cans as artists; I'm also crossing my fingers that society will view these people with tattoos as individuals and that they see there body art as a sign of freedom of expression and beauty.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Metacognition: the Mashup Process
Throughout the Mashup project, one specific thought of process I had was "what's next?" After I decided what to do on one of the steps, I asked my self how I should transition to the next step in one voice. During this time of questioning, too be honest, I did not do as much as I should have. I tried to almost force out any knowledge I could think of. However, all of my ideas just did not seem to work. I grew frustrated.
My dynamics of thinking were very poor in the beginning. I wasn't thinking out of the box. All I did was to jog up any memories of the curriculum since August, and it did nothing. Then it hit me. Realizing that the answers won't just come up in my head, I actually began to search.
I began to search through previous novels and excerpts we read earlier this year. This is where I found most of my information. Utilizing quotes from Sophie's World and Letter from a Birmingham Jail, my mashup began to form. Slowly, I constructed more ideas on top of this foundation of quotes.
What really surprised me about my thinking was how my mind worked in general throughout the project. When I really got in the zone while working on this, my mind began to go on cruise control. Browsing through quotes and the mashup and rearranging the different steps, I did many things almost at once.
What was the most surprising to me was how the mashup actually turned out. I was almost in disbelief at how I, Danny Kang, actually made such a project on my own. I doubted myself at first, but after seeing the results, it was a very rewarding feeling.
One thing I wish I did better was to utilize more pictures. Although I was very content with out the mashup turned out, I realized that there were very few visuals. Personally, visuals make a project much more interesting to a viewer. I only hope that the other aspects of the mashup really makes up for the lack of visuals. Hopefully the context of it will make the point I wished to get through.
My dynamics of thinking were very poor in the beginning. I wasn't thinking out of the box. All I did was to jog up any memories of the curriculum since August, and it did nothing. Then it hit me. Realizing that the answers won't just come up in my head, I actually began to search.
I began to search through previous novels and excerpts we read earlier this year. This is where I found most of my information. Utilizing quotes from Sophie's World and Letter from a Birmingham Jail, my mashup began to form. Slowly, I constructed more ideas on top of this foundation of quotes.
What really surprised me about my thinking was how my mind worked in general throughout the project. When I really got in the zone while working on this, my mind began to go on cruise control. Browsing through quotes and the mashup and rearranging the different steps, I did many things almost at once.
What was the most surprising to me was how the mashup actually turned out. I was almost in disbelief at how I, Danny Kang, actually made such a project on my own. I doubted myself at first, but after seeing the results, it was a very rewarding feeling.
One thing I wish I did better was to utilize more pictures. Although I was very content with out the mashup turned out, I realized that there were very few visuals. Personally, visuals make a project much more interesting to a viewer. I only hope that the other aspects of the mashup really makes up for the lack of visuals. Hopefully the context of it will make the point I wished to get through.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Letters to a Young Poet Mashup: Patience Grasshopper
Patience is a virtue.
1.
2. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
3. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved
4. You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
5. Through it all
6. That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
7. Patience is the key to life. Rather than searching for all of the answers, one must love and live the questions of life. However, the answers will come throughout your entire journey through life, eventually, so one must not be anxious and lose discipline.
8. It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
9. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living
10.
11. When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're gradually on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
12. In order for personal growth to occur, one needs to not look for answers outside, but within. It may take a while, but be patient. You will find all the answers to all your questions inside you. No one can help you, but yourself. You are your only source of help and growth. Keep searching.
13. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity
14. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything.
15. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
16. Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endure beside our own small, transitory life.
17. The difficulties in life is when people receive the most benefits as a person. Our hardships in life help you grow. Taking the easy route only displays laziness and lack of passion.
18. Hardships may take you into a time of darkness and sorrow. However, you must not shut out the sicknesses and negative experiences in life. So rather than asking why, just be patient and endure. Let these phases of sickness take over and embrace them. Accept them. At first you might not realize it, but the things you learn as a result shapes you into a better you.
19. But more than that, it leads them to places they never expected to see and enables them to accomplish things that surprise them and satisfy them.
20. Instead of expressing every single emotion that comes to mind, from the vast sea of emotions you have, pick out your true feelings. Do not let all of these emotions clash. Through the process of growth, you have to also stick with some of your friends, but also let some go. Whatever emotion and whoever you choose, make sure you love life through everything you do.
Works Cited
1. "The Testimony of Modern Art" Humanities Website
2. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
3. Bible: Matthew 24:13
4. Rilke, Rainer Maria, and Franz Xaver Kappus. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Norton, 1954 Print. (34)
5. Hillsong United. "Through it All"
6. Rilke, Rainer. (68)
7. Personal Reflection
8. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. (203)
9. Rilke, Rainer. (34-35)
10. Ghandi. Google Search.
11. Gaarder, Joestine. "The Solitaire Mystery"
12. Personal Reflection
13. Rilke, Rainer. (6)
14. Rilke, Rainer. (24-25)
15. Nelson Mandela. "Long Walk to Freedom"
16. Rilke, Rainer. (4)
17. Personal Reflection
18. Personal Reflection
19. Alan Alda. "Pass the Plate, Mr. Feynman"
20.Personal Reflection
1.
2. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
3. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved
4. You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
5. Through it all
6. That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.
7. Patience is the key to life. Rather than searching for all of the answers, one must love and live the questions of life. However, the answers will come throughout your entire journey through life, eventually, so one must not be anxious and lose discipline.
8. It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
9. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Perhaps you do carry within you the possibility of creating and forming, as an especially blessed and pure way of living
10.
11. When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're gradually on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
12. In order for personal growth to occur, one needs to not look for answers outside, but within. It may take a while, but be patient. You will find all the answers to all your questions inside you. No one can help you, but yourself. You are your only source of help and growth. Keep searching.
13. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity
14. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything.
15. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
16. Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endure beside our own small, transitory life.
17. The difficulties in life is when people receive the most benefits as a person. Our hardships in life help you grow. Taking the easy route only displays laziness and lack of passion.
18. Hardships may take you into a time of darkness and sorrow. However, you must not shut out the sicknesses and negative experiences in life. So rather than asking why, just be patient and endure. Let these phases of sickness take over and embrace them. Accept them. At first you might not realize it, but the things you learn as a result shapes you into a better you.
19. But more than that, it leads them to places they never expected to see and enables them to accomplish things that surprise them and satisfy them.
20. Instead of expressing every single emotion that comes to mind, from the vast sea of emotions you have, pick out your true feelings. Do not let all of these emotions clash. Through the process of growth, you have to also stick with some of your friends, but also let some go. Whatever emotion and whoever you choose, make sure you love life through everything you do.
Works Cited
1. "The Testimony of Modern Art" Humanities Website
2. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
3. Bible: Matthew 24:13
4. Rilke, Rainer Maria, and Franz Xaver Kappus. Letters to a Young Poet. New York: Norton, 1954 Print. (34)
5. Hillsong United. "Through it All"
6. Rilke, Rainer. (68)
7. Personal Reflection
8. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. (203)
9. Rilke, Rainer. (34-35)
10. Ghandi. Google Search.
11. Gaarder, Joestine. "The Solitaire Mystery"
12. Personal Reflection
13. Rilke, Rainer. (6)
14. Rilke, Rainer. (24-25)
15. Nelson Mandela. "Long Walk to Freedom"
16. Rilke, Rainer. (4)
17. Personal Reflection
18. Personal Reflection
19. Alan Alda. "Pass the Plate, Mr. Feynman"
20.Personal Reflection
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